Richard Money believes Cambridge United should not expect a repeat of their opening day 5-1 drubbing of Halifax when they travel to the Shay tomorrow.

Halifax took an early lead in that encounter last August only to have two players sent off, United taking full advantage to get their Skrill Premier campaign off to a flying start.

He said: “I don’t think anyone who saw that game thought they’d be anywhere else but where they are and it just shows you that stats can be thrown out of the window on most occasions.

“We know we got the run of the game, there’s no doubt about that, but I don’t think any of the incidents the referee called was wrong.

“Those incidents meant we were in a good position to go on, but I don’t think you can take too much from that game for the game this weekend.

“We’re more thinking about their record at home this season and what they’ve done to some of the biggest teams already and 40 goals in those 15 games shows the size of the task.”

Meanwhile, Money said he was still keen to see Kwesi Appiah return to United from Crystal Palace despite the influx of Ashley Chambers and Matthew Barnes-Homer to boost the side up front.

He said: “We’ve still left room because you can’t have enough forwards at this stage of the season.

“In an ideal world you want two to start a game and two to come on and rotate every other game because our forwards have to work extremely hard in this team to be part of the defensive unit, score goals and create as well.

“We talk to either Kwesi or his agent regularly and I’ve told Kwesi that no matter what he sees in terms of who we bring in, we’d still like to bring him back.

“Palace are aware of it, but it depends on whether there’s anything else for him to go to in the League because he won’t go anywhere else but us if he comes to this level.”